Innovation

It is a very common thing in everyday conversation to attribute success or failure of tech companies to "ability to innovate". Scott Berkun takes a direct shot at this "easy reasoning" with a good article : 'Good' Beats 'Innovative' Nearly Every Time

E-Toys

Was directed to Alan Kay's work from some blog/book and that eventually led me to squeak and E-Toys. It is a great piece of software - both from the vision and implementation angles. You owe it to yourself to try it out for your kids/for the kid in yourself :)

It may take a little while at first, but once you have figured out a basic example, rest all flows with very little additional effort - an important sign of a of a well designed product/framework.

Main site: Squeak Land

Good article on api design.

My bro. forwarded this and it was a great read: API Design Matters .

From within, without trailer...

Dr Luc and Co are coming up with a movie on autism and homeopathy. Though I know of no one in my circle who has an autistic child, this made quite an impression on me.

Watch the trailer here.

Climate change

Pavlina has a great analysis on Climate Change that is worth reading.

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A 2006 United Nations report found that the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined. If we’re going to combat global warming, doesn’t it make sense to work on the #1 source of greenhouse gas emissions? Shouldn’t we strike at the root of the problem instead of just hacking at the branches?
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